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capitalism economic system in which private citizens own businesses and industries
speculation the buying and selling of stocks to make a quick profit
dividend portion of a company;s prodit paid to stockholders
margin purchasing stock by putting a small amount down and borrowing the rest
stock ownership piece of a company
depression long and severe decline in economic activity
"run" on a bank when depositors try to withdraw all their money in cash from bank
Hooversville · The shantytowns where homeless people lived
Bonus Army unemployed veterans who had marched to Washington
Anarchy Belief in absence of government
Bolshevik radical communists led by Lenin in 1917 Russian revolution
alien foreigner
deport forcibly remove from a country because of illegal or political reasons
Red named after color of banner in Russian revolution of 1917, a radical, anarchist or communist
Prohibition banned making/selling alcohol
Suffrage person who believes in women's right to vote
Temperance movement against sale and use of alcohol
Quota filling spaces based on race, sex, religion...
lynch hang some one, usually blacks by Ku Klux Klan
Arms Race Us and USSR, started with H bond testing
tariff war fight regarding taxes on export and import goods of a country regarding another country
teapot dome scandal Harding's Secretary of Interior took a bribe to allow private companies to drill in national reserve oil fields.
disarmament act of getting rid of military weapons
war debts monies owed by government and other countries from expense of war
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Free enterprise capitalism system of economics where you can trade with anyone
speakeasies illegal saloons
flappers Women cut their hair, shortened their skirts, danced the “Charleston”
assembly line factory procedure made famous by Henry Ford in which cars or goods move past workers and machines to be assembled piece by piece until complete
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